A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 125

Cousin?!

Cordy flinched while she was still in John’s arms, and he clearly felt her move!

“Come here,” John then told Zoe.

Zoe did so tentatively with an unsteady gait. Though her cheeks were flushed from alcohol, she looked utterly afraid, like a child about to ask their parents for forgiveness.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt you making out,” she said with a wounded tone. “I just needed to pee.”

On the other hand, although Cordy had been resistant toward being intimate with John, she was left so utterly awkward she buried her head within John’s embrace, too ashamed to show her face. John certainly knew that Cordy was embarrassed, but he was not letting her off the hook either. He pressed, “And what do you call my grandfather?”

“John, you’re scaring me.” Zoe’s pupils were dilating–did he somehow lose every bit of intelligence from making out?!

Still, seeing the serious look from her cousin, she had to answer honestly. “Grandfather.”

then and asked Cordy, who was still hiding her face, “So? Do you understand the connection between

her. Still, she nodded

see my birth certificate as well, Ms. Sachs?” John

quickly shook her head, even as Zoe

gotten into you two?” Zoe could not

Though someone misunderstood that

suddenly felt a

from his chest, her

so embarrassing, it was more than enough for John alone

curling up and she could clearly feel it on her palm along with his

quickly withdrew her hand from his lips, Zoe was perplexed by their curious interaction. “What on earth are you

go

was clearly upset at that–was she supposed to stay or

John said

was scared of him,